Abusive Theology 101

[Rahul]

EDIT: I actually sincerely don't understand why torture would be considered bad without God in the picture, so I ask again. Why is torture bad?

Torture is bad because we are social animals. And to inflict harm on another person usually is only done inter-tribally at least. Those who commit harm within their own tribe are usually gotten rid of as being a hinderance to their tribe.

Even soldiers naturally start to de-humanize those they fight against to override their natural instincts not to harm others.

As for torture, it's merely causing pain to another human for no good reason. Studies have shown that if you torture someone enough they will tell you anything they think you want to know, regardless if it is the truth or not. Just to make the pain stop.

It's no good for rehabilitation because it makes those tortured develop a burning hatred for everything to do with the torturer. Even those of his ethnic group. Any of them could fall victim to the revenge bred in the heart of the tortured.

But torturing humans twists the torturer as much as those he tortures. The person starts to de-value human life. Which makes them a danger to their own society.

It's bad because we naturally realize that a certain point has been breached and you are watching a monster going to work by inflicting pain for pain's sake.